![]() | Better Farming Series 02 - The Plant: the Stem; the Buds; the Leaves (FAO - INADES, 1976, 30 p.) |
![]() | ![]() | The leaves |
![]() | ![]() | What are leaves for? |
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The plant gets water and mineral salts from the soil.
This is
inorganic matter.
This inorganic matter is changed by light and carbon and
becomes elaborated sap.
The elaborated sap feeds the plant.
Just as blood
enables a man to make his muscles, hair, bones, so elaborated sap enables a
plant to make leaves, wood, fruits. The leaves, the wood, the fruits are organic
matter.
Inorganic matter has become organic matter.